[aur-dev] [PATCH 2/5] use valid_email() from codeigniter's email helper
Lukas Fleischer
archlinux at cryptocrack.de
Fri Jun 24 10:02:47 EDT 2011
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:11:28PM +0200, Cédric Girard wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Florian Pritz <bluewind at xinu.at> wrote:
>
> > + return ( !
> > preg_match("/^([a-z0-9\+_\-]+)(\.[a-z0-9\+_\-]+)*@([a-z0-9\-]+\.)+[a-z]{2,6}$/ix",
> > $addy)) ? FALSE : TRUE;
> >
>
> Some legitimate email address will not be matched by your regexp.
>
> Better use built-in PHP functions:
>
> return filter_var($addy,FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL);
I prefer this one. Given that the PHP release enabling filter extensions
by default was released about 4.5 years ago, I'd say we can push this.
Objections?
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